Category Archives: Technology

Not the most interesting blog posting title, is it? Anyway, the reason for the aforementioned title is that I just upgraded at work to a new laptop, a Lenovo (nee IBM) Thinkpad. One of the issues I hit while setting … Continue reading →

Caller ID has been compromised. No longer do you have the assurance that the number displayed on your ringing telephone actually represents the person on the other end of the line. With the advent of so-called Caller ID spoofing services, … Continue reading →

Today I had my first experience with Greasemonkey. For those of you who have yet to come across it, Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that opens up a whole new realm of client-side website personalization opportunities. Greasemonkey enables the execution … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Daniel and the team at under[de]construction for the v1.0 release of SWIM. SWIM provides a very innovative approach to Content Management, without the complexity of traditional solutions. You can read more about SWIM in the post over on … Continue reading →

… otherwise known as when is a sync() not a sync()? Recently I ran some performance tests on disk I/O, from both Java and C-based applications. The nature of the applications is such that they require transactional logging for reliability, … Continue reading →

I have now started to regularly experience what I will class as the ‘SourceForge Mirage Effect.’ Let me explain this phenomenon with a common scenario: You’re working on your latest project, and would like to find an Open Source component … Continue reading →

Gregor Hohpe, Enterprise Integration Practice leader over at Thoughtworks, maintains the excellent Enterprise Integration Patterns website. This site, and the recently released book, provide a detailed description of common patterns found throughout Enterprise architectures. Well worth a visit.

… otherwise known as my Spambayes experience, day 7. In my quest to resolve my spam issues (as described in a previous entry), I decided to try out SpamBayes, a popular open source Bayesian filter implemented in Python. This seemed … Continue reading →

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been on the receiving end of a considerable amount of spam email. “What’s so new about that?” I hear you ask. Well, in this particular case, I’m suffering from the results of bounced … Continue reading →

Microsoft has just published the presentations from their recent Reliable Messaging Feedback Workshop. The presentations on WS-ReliableMessaging make interesting reading, and, in conjunction with the joint briefing today by Gates and Mills, are clear indications of the momentum behind Web … Continue reading →